Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

1. On-going formal collaboration with Freie Universitaet Berlin around the long-term stay of Emmanuel Baccelli in Berlin, around the topics of the Internet of Things and Information-Centric Networking.

2. The Inria teams Infine and Eva are part of the "D2D Communication for LTE Advanced Cellular Network" , a project funded by the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA). With industrial partners, and also with Indian partners, this project is focusing on the evolution of cellular networks towards 5G: this includes exploration of device-to-device (D2D) communication, and more generally IoT communication in a cellular context. Research directions include efficient access for IoT devices (massive numbers of devices with low volume communication); combination of random access protocols/error coding/physical layer ; efficient neighbor discovery, ldots.

1. On-going collaboration with Hamburg University of Applied Science around RIOT.

2. Informal collaborations with UIUC and UMass.

• Program: STIC AmSud

• Project acronym: UCOOL

• Project title: Understanding and predicting human demanded COntent and mObiLity

• Duration: 2013-2015

• Coordinator: Aline Carneiro Viana

• Other partners: National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (Brazil), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile), Telecom Sud Paris, and Inria (with INFINE at Saclay and DANTE at Rhone-Alpes)

• Abstract: The UCOOL (Understanding and predicting human demanded COntent and mObiLity, https://macaco.inria.fr/) project is granted by STIC-AmSUD, it is a 2-year project, and has officially started in January 2014. The main goal of this project is to define solutions for the identification and modelling of correlations between the user mobility – describing changes in the user positioning and the current environment he/she is in – and the traffic demand he/she generates.

• Program: -FCT - Programa PESSOA

• Project title: Routine-based Enhanced Connectivity under User Mobility

• Duration: 2015-2016

• Coordinator: Aline Carneiro Viana and João Paulo da Silva Machado Garcia Vilela (University of Coimbra)

• Abstract: The main goal of this project is to improve WiFi connectivity of users under mobility. The steady growth of smart-phones usage has put cellular networks under great strain, justifying the need for WiFi offloading as a solution that transfers part of the demand on cellular networks to WiFi hotspots that are in many cases already available. However, this must be performed in a way that provides benefits to the cellular operator while ensuring users a similar level of connectivity that they would achieve with cellular networks, even under user mobility (e.g. walking, taking a bus/train, etc). In this work we aim at (1) developing prediction mechanisms for selection of best hotspots by users under mobility, and (2) develop lightweight security schemes to reduce the burden of the association/authentication process of WiFi networks, therefore making WiFi offloading an effective and secure alternative to the growing demand on cellular networks.